Dog Soldiers

Movie
German title	Dog Soldiers
Original title	Dog Soldiers
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	2002
length	100 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Neil Marshall
script	Neil Marshall
production	David E. Allen ; Christopher Figg ; Tom Reeve
music	Mark Thomas
camera	Sam McCurdy
cut	Neil Marshall
occupation
	Sean Pertwee : Sergeant Harry G. Wells; Kevin McKidd : Private Cooper; Emma Cleasby : Megan; Liam Cunningham : Captain Ryan; Thomas Lockyer : Corporal Bruce Campbell; Darren Morfitt : "Spoon" Witherspoon; Chris Robson : Private Joe Kirkley; Leslie Simpson : Private Terry Milburn;

Dog Soldiers is a 2002 feature film directed by Neil Marshall . It is about a group of British soldiers who are confronted with a horde of werewolves in the Scottish Highlands .

action

A unit of six British Army soldiers is dropped off in the Highlands to take part in a combat exercise against a special unit. On their way to the position of the enemy, they notice an emergency signal from the special unit. When they reach the unit's camp, they discover that all members of the special unit have been brutally killed. The only survivor, Captain Ryan, is traumatized and badly wounded.

When leaving the camp, the unit is attacked by unknown creatures. One member is killed and Sergeant Wells is wounded. At the last second they are rescued by the zoologist Megan, who takes them to a nearby farm in her Land Rover.

As darkness falls, the house is attacked and the soldiers must discover that the creatures are werewolves. During the night, the trapped make desperate attempts to kill the werewolves and escape from the house, but the werewolves are always one step ahead of them. It also turns out that the residents of the house are the werewolves. Meanwhile, Ryan and Wells recover unusually quickly from their wounds and Ryan eventually transforms himself into a werewolf, but is pierced with a sword by Cooper and driven to flight.

Megan suspects that the werewolves are using the yard's barn as a hiding place. Cooper and Spoon set fire to the barn using the family's Land Rover. Megan's claim turns out to be a ruse - Megan is part of the family herself, transforms into a werewolf in front of the soldiers and opens the door for the other werewolves. Cooper, Spoon and Wells now have to fight desperately for their lives in the house. Spoon can almost win a boxing match with a werewolf in the kitchen before he is killed.

Wells and Cooper also make their way to the kitchen, where Wells blows up themselves, the house and the werewolves with the gas stove. Cooper is able to escape to the basement beforehand, where he meets Ryan. Cooper can kill him with a silver letter opener.

At the end of the credits you can see a newspaper - the headline reports on the 5: 1 victory of England over the German national team, a side note shows a photo of Cooper with the signature "Werewolves Ate My Platoon".

criticism

The lexicon of international films ruled that the film was a "crude straggler of the werewolf horror films" . It represents the attempt to "combine modern action cinema with traditional cinema myths" . The film is "initially staged slowly" , "then gains in speed, but also in hardness."